SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[Katana190]

Adding such highly wanted job as a DPS will change the number of Tanks however, the Ninja craze will happen again and the DF ques will suffer for it. Tanks are always needed, not keeping your Tanks interested in the role is an amazingly effective way to shoot yourself in the foot

Its like us tanks aren't people... Its kinda insulting for people to think the queue times are the only thing dictating the SAM spot to try and justify it to a DPS. Seeing a trend with how incredibly selfish the DPS side opinions (All I'm hearing is muh SAM DPS, give tanks the uninteresting/makes no sense tank and give us the DPS spot) are as opposed with the tank side opinions being more factual and logical.(See Shippuu, lots of logic and fact)

Edit: I'm not aiming this to the person I replied to for clarification.

[MagiusNecros]

Tanking is boring.

Why should they waste a good job like Samurai for the tank role?

I said the same thing about Dark Knight yet here we fucking are.

[Quor]

Tanking is boring.

Why should they waste a good job like Samurai for the tank role?

Clearly you're not doing it right. Nothing is more exciting than "accidentally" facing a boss the wrong way. You'll never see people move faster or with more purpose than when they realize that Sephirot has turned to face them and is winding up for that big punch of his.

[Alacran]

I would not be surprised to see 4.0 give us talent trees, not unlike another game from long ago. It would satisfy both camps and allow for an amount of play style option. Not that I personally want that.

I would like to see a Samurai use drawout abilities to lay overlaping fields (AOE's) in melee range to buff allies and debuff mobs. Incremental tp, mp, hp regens, and combo effects that change according to stance.

So many claim that just want a sword dps, but there are so many to choose from beside the iconic Samurai. Blue mages dual wielding tulwars, dual wielding Red mage fencers, even a single blade using duelist variant of either. Perhaps even a version of the Templar that uses a hand and half sword (though i like spear/lance and shield better).

[Laerune]

I am tired of another slash type of tank. Samurai is popular and will have the same effect as Dark Knight when it comes to being a tank. Samurai tank will "the" tank for a bit, then the players that dislike tanking will quit tanking and go back to whatever role they did before, afcourse some will stay and some tanks will change classes to the Samurai. This has happend with Dark Knight aswell, majority of the Dark Knights that I have met are either Warriors and Paladin who have quit their old job or a small group of a players who were dps or healer who fell in love with Dark Knight and have decided to main them.

The new jobs should be different:
- Tank should not be another swordwielder type of class.
- DPS could use a 1h sword type of class or 2h.
- Healers, enough with the wizard type of casters, give the players something different.

That is why I suggest they add:
- Tank: Beastmaster a tank that uses duelwield axes and has a Beast as a companion.
- DPS: Samurai or Red Mage, Samurai has a katana and Red Mage a rapier.
- Healer: Red Mage (rapier) or Dancer (duelwield dagger and a fan), with Dancer they should turn it into a TP based healer.

I know Samurai is a popular class, so one roll the dps or tank will not get it, but we should try and encourage the developers to try something else.

[MistyMew]

Wouldn't bother me either way as I never liked SAM.
Hopefully SE will choose the right role though whichever that may be.

I am hopeful one day to have BLU, BST and RDM in this game as long as roles and playstyle very similar to ffxi. (bst if they vastly improve pet ui and responsiveness only however)

[MugenMugetsu]

I think SAM should be DPS. Their offensive capability would be severely hindered if they are placed in the tank role, and I feel that SAM should be one of the strongest DPS in the game. SAM were one of the strongest DPS in FFXI and it just would not feel right, to me, to see SAM as a tank. While I do understand how SAM could be placed in the tank role, I feel that we do not need another sword wielding tank job, and SAM would be a great addition to the game as a sword wielding DPS.

[ChocoFeru]

SAM will be DPS! Yoshi-P already stated that months (a year?) ago!

[AnduinLynn]

would be cool to see another tank class

[Xaeth]

Ever since I saw the statue of the fury in the cathedral, I've been praying to it so we can get Templar with spear and shield as a tank. (I don't play tank but I still think it would be awesome)

As for SAM, I think it should be a dps since we already have a 2-handed sword wielder in DRK...

And RDM should be a rapier wielding melee dps class which uses uses MP and TP and has a elemental buff (enfire or the like) that makes it so all its physical attacks does magic damage.

These are my opinions ^.^